What are the important events that happened on February 28? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

February 28: Facts & Myths About This Day

February 28 is the 59^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 306 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 15, 2022 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 27,433,440 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘pentacontaenneagon’ day.

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Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 328 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 3,356 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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February 28 Historical Events

• 1638 –
  The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
• 1854 –
  The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
• 1870 –
  The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1883 –
  The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1885 –
  The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
• 1893 –
  The USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
• 1933 –
  Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
• 1985 –
  The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
• 1997 –
  GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
• 2005 –
  A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.

Who were born on February 28?

• 1612 –
  John Pearson, English theologian (d. 1686)
• 1824 –
  Blondin, French tightrope walker (d. 1897)
• 1896 –
  Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
• 1925 –
  Harry H Corbett, English actor (d. 1982)
• 1957 –
  Paul Delph, American musician and producer (d. 1996)
• 1960 –
  Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress (d. 1980)
• 1963 –
  Claudio Chiappucci, Italian cyclist
• 1964 –
  Fernando del Valle, American tenor
• 1965 –
  Park Gok-ji, South Korean film editor
• 1969 –
  Robert Sean Leonard, American actor

Who died on February 28?

• 1453 –
  Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)
• 1869 –
  Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer and poet (b. 1790)
• 1935 –
  Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (b. 1847).
• 1956 –
  Emile Buisson, French murderer (executed) (b. 1902)
• 1967 –
  Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
• 1993 –
  Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress and dancer (b. 1910)
• 2004 –
  Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (b. 1982)
• 2007 –
  Billy Thorpe, Australian musician (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (b. 1946)
• 2008 –
  Mike Smith, English musician (The Dave Clark Five) (b. 1943)
• 2009 –
  Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (b. 1918)

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